Will drinking pomgranate juice while receiving radiation treatment for prostate cancer diminish treatment?
I saw studies that pomgranate juice had helped men after receiving radiation treatment & now they're recruiting for double blind clinical study. ? is that since it fights free radicals, will it interfere with radiation treatment. Friend has 9 more scheduled radiations and has already undergone 30+
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If you take pomegranates and make the juice, it may help a little, but the real help are several things. I cannot legally tell a person not to get chemotherapy, but I can tell you that if I had that diagnosis, I would not get that garbage. Treating the symptoms without getting rid of the "root cause" is just NOT good science in my opinion. If your friend continues to choose that route, the best thing to combat radiation is GREEN TEA. You can get an extract of green tea that is very powerful and each tsp. is equivalent to 20 cups of green tea, but without the caffeine and fluoride. Typical green tea is loaded with fluoride and that depletes the body of iodine. I have two basic suggestions for your friend that may help him. The first, is to look at his front teeth, in particular 2 upper and 2 lower. If any of those have infection, trauma, etc. that has a huge potential for being the root cause of the prostate issue. He will need to see a REAL dentist, not the guy down the street that is using the typical "standard of care" dentistry and still believes amalgam fillings are safe. As an aside just for your own enjoyment and education on this issue, watch this video: http://www.milldental.com/millennium/webvideo/MercuryDanger/SmokingTooth_200k.wmv The next thing I would do is get the book called, "Cancer can be cured" by Father Romano Zago. Once you have read that book and you want to follow it, I know a company that is producing the product and people are actually being helped, unlike the radiation and chemo that allows the root of the problem to continue and the body to deteriorate while they try to treat the cancer itself. EDIT: Wow, the "don't eat or drink antioxidants" post is quite alarming and completely against any advice given by real experts. Doctors have no clue what they are talking about in regard to nutrition and just ask yourself, what gets rid of free radicals in the body? Antioxidants. To limit your intake of that is to allow free reign of free radicals and to limit your intake of antioxidants not only promotes disease, but but shortens your life! The other post referring to Green Tea inhibiting the effect of chemotherapy is correct. Green Tea protects the body against radiation and toxins. A now released study of the Japanese people that went through the radiation from the bomb in WWII showed that the people that drank over 20 cups of green tea per day did not have the radiation poisoning that people who did not drink the tea. In 1972, according to the American Cancer Societies own figures, 33% of cancers had a five year survival rate. We should also point out that at that same time 33% of cancers went away on their own. Today, according to the ACS, the five year survival rate for cancer has risen to 40%. However, what they do not tell you is that 1.The statistics are invalid because they combine data of both local and metastasized cancers; and that the comparisons are not randomized [Ulrich Abel, Advanced Epithelial Cancer", 1990 (no longer in print) ] 2.Cancers not factored into the original statistics are now factored in, such as skin cancers, many of which are not fatal and that the statistics are purposely inflated by including people with benign cancers. 3.Technology has helped us to find cancers earlier, thus the survival time from diagnosis to eventual death has lengthened. 4.They are now including in their stats non deadly skin cancers. We pride ourselves in America for being technologically advanced and that our technology is rooted in a foundation of good science. Wrong. When it comes to medicine, little at all is based upon science. Again we shall point to the Office of Technological Assessment’s paper: Assessing the Efficacy and Safety of Medical Technologies in which we are told that fewer than 20% of all medical procedures have been tested, and that of those tested, half were tested badly. Medicine in America is not about healing. When you are diagnosed with cancer, you are suddenly worth $300,000.00 to the cancer industry. Most telling, according to Ralph Moss in his book Questioning Chemotherapy, is that in a good number of surveys, chemotherapists have responded that they would neither recommend chemotherapy for their families nor would they use it themselves. Dr Dan Harper, reported about an unpublished cohort study in which it was revealed that only 9% of oncologists took chemotherapy for their cancers. Irwin Bross, a biostatistician for the National Cancer Institute, discovered that many cancers that are benign (though thought to be malignant) and will not metastasize until they are hit with chemotherapy. In other words, he's found that many people who've been diagnosed with metastatic cancer did not have metastatic cancer until they got their chemotherapy. For many cancers, chemotherapy just does not improve your survival rate. Some of these are colorectal, gastric, pancreatic, bladder, breast, ovarian, cervical and corpus uteri, head and neck. Knowing this, oncologists still recommend a regimen of chemotherapy. When President Reagan had his colon cancer successfully removed by surgery, his health was reported daily as he recovered. On his return to work, a spokesperson appeared, proclaimed him cured, and that was that. However, very nearly every patient who undergoes surgery for colon cancer gets put on chemotherapy afterwards. Why not President Reagan? Dr. Charles Simone, who today handles cancers with diet and lifestyle changes was hired on as the president’s personal oncologist. The public never learned of this because the good doctor, was stuffed into a grocery truck and made his entrance into the white house through the backdoor where deliveries are made. When questioning some top oncologists in the country, their were a lot of questions presented to them, one of them being: “Knowing the odds of successful outcome using chemotherapy are nil in many cancer cases, why do you continue to prescribe chemotherapy?†The answer was this: “We give it to patients so they won't give up hope and fall into the hands of quacks.†Quacks? Implicit in the definition of quackery is the sale of worthless or dangerous nostrums for profit. Who exactly are the quacks here? If a person dies during a chemotherapy study, that information is NOT included in the write up because the patient did NOT complete the study. This is NOT good science, but it seems our medical industry hides behind white coats and when you have a lot of BIG money to spend, first it's easy to spend other people's money and second, money doesn't talk, it SCREAMS. To fight cancer, as any disease, if you attack the disease itself, you are treating symptoms and chasing it instead of confronting the "root cause" of the problem. It is more than obvious that doctors have NO clue of how the body works and are practicing medicine (that is administering drugs) instead of concentrating on making that person healthy. Chemotherapy is simply destructive, costly, and ineffective in the majority of cancer victims. Like the oncologists, I would not subject myself to that insanity, but that is me who is working tirelessly to make people healthy and does NOT treat diseases, but focuses on promoting health. good luck to you
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I would say you want to avoid taking supplements containing anti-oxidants. I was told to stop taking all supplements, but I did continue witha a multi-vitamin for children to reduce the amount of vitamins and to eliminate extra anti-oxidants. I was not told to avoid any foods or drinks. Pomegranate juice does contain a high level of anti-oxidants, so if you are drinking it deliberately to get anti-oxidants, I don't think that's a good idea. If you drink it occasionally because you like the taste, then it's probably fine. The point is you don't want to deliberately eat/drink things that contain extra high doses of anti-oxidants. But you don't have to avoid eating or drinking your normal foods which contain some anti-oxidants.
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To be safe, he should ask his radiation oncologist. Studies show that green tea interferes with chemotherapy, so it's always a good idea to check with a qualified health care professional before you add anything new to your diet when you are being treated for cancer. If you are interested in learning about the potential benefits of pomegranate juice for prostate cancer, you can visit this link: http://www.hisprostatecancer.com/pomegranate-juice.html
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OnlyMatch, I'm amazed at some of the stuff you can come up with. I didn't even finish reading it. President Reagan had polyps removed that were tested and deemed NOT cancerous. I told my dr what I was taking and he was fine with all of it...organic flax seed oil capsules with omegas and lignans, vit d pill with calcium, and an antioxidant fruit juice concentrate that you only drink 1 oz a day. They make me feel better and it hasn't interfered with anything I've been or am going through.
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